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Type: Historical Memory ×

This house prefers teaching the sanitised history of a nation -one with narratives like no victim no vanquished- to depicting the true horrors of civil strife
Covenant University Intervarsity Debating Championships 2021 · 2 · 2021-05-07
This house as a post-colonial state would create a history education curriculum that diminishes the role of colonialism in determining the country's trajectory
Philippine Schools Debating Championship 2021 · 7 · 2021-04-30
This house regrets the Louisiana Purchase
Philippine Schools Debating Championship 2021 · Open Final · 2021-04-30
This house prefers a world where the legacies of radical revolutionaries are glorified over the legacies of peaceful revolutionaries
Taylor's Genders · 3 · 2021-04-24
This house believes that there is no longer a place for monarchies in modern democracies
Infoslide

Current monarchies include but are not limited to the following democratic countries: the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Sweden, Spain, and Japan.

Chanakya National Law University BP · 3 · 2021-04-19
In retrospect, this house would have prevented all ARENA-affiliated politicians from running in the first elections after redemocratization.
IX Torneio Temático de Debates da UFC · Open Final · 2021-04-18
This house prefers a world where people identify more with the history of their countries (national heroes, traditions, common cultural elements, etc.) over a world where people identify more with sport (eg Latin America and New Zealand Soccer and Rugby etc).
II BP UNED · 2 · 2021-04-18
This house regrets the electoral symbol of Jânio Quadros.
Infoslide

With a presidential campaign based on political morality and the fight against corruption, Jânio Quadros was elected defeating a strong coalition at the time (PSD and PTB) and received the trust of a large part of the population. He was an opponent of the Brazilian left, but he was also not aligned with the right (UDC and other parties) and in this sense he presented himself as an anti-system politician.

IX Torneio Temático de Debates da UFC · 4 · 2021-04-18
This house supports the goals plan 50 years in 05 by Juscelino Kubitschek
IX Torneio Temático de Debates da UFC · Open Pre-Final · 2021-04-18
In retrospect, this house laments the Revolution of 30.
Infoslide

The 1930 Revolution was the armed movement led by the states of Minas Gerais Paraíba and Rio Grande do Sul that culminated in the coup d'état the 1930 coup that deposed President Washington Luís on October 24 prevented the inauguration of President-elect Júlio Prestes. and put an end to the Old Republic. Getúlio Vargas took over the head of the 'Provisional Government' on November 3, a date that marks the end of the Old Republic in Brazil and of the café au lait policy.

IX Torneio Temático de Debates da UFC · 2 · 2021-04-18
This house regrets the conception of the French Revolution as a largely positive historical event.
Infoslide

The French Revolution as a historical process involved a series of changes within the French political world. After the revolutionary groups forced the crown to make changes regarding popular sovereignty, giving more power to the people to decide. this process brings with it several elements to today's society, such as the values of modern republics (Liberty, equality, fraternity), but it did not end with a democratic France with full popular sovereignty, but rather with the arrival of Napoleon to power, who eliminated much of the progress made. . In addition, during the process of the revolution, multiple deaths were caused to members of the nobility but also to people of more moderate political tones.

II BP UNED · Open Quarters · 2021-04-18
GIVEN THE ABILITY, this house would COPY ALL IMPORTANT MATERIALS CONTAINING MODERN CIVILIZATIONS’ ACCUMULATED KNOWLEDGE FROM THE LAST 1000 YEARS (INCLUDING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, HUMANITIES SUCH AS LITERATURE AND ART, HISTORY AND POLITICS, CONFLICTS AND NATURAL DISASTERS, ETC), TRANSLATE AND DISTRIBUTE THEM TO EVERY CORNER OF THE WORLD IN THE YEAR 1021
Hanoi Debate Open · Open Final · 2021-04-17
In post-conflict societies this house prefers the creation of art with an inspirational and unifying message over art that depicts the prior or current suffering.
Formasi Internal Competition 2021 · 1 · 2021-04-16
This house believes that evil should not be characterised as banal
Infoslide

the concept of the 'banality of evil' claims that great acts of evil can be committed by ordinary individuals. Under this theory most perpetrators of great evil are ordinary people with no motive for their actions other than promoting their own advancement in the system

The 73rd Mukarji Memorial Debate 2021 · Open Octos · 2021-04-09
This house supports art that invents new mythology instead of re-imagination of the art of pre-conflict society
The 73rd Mukarji Memorial Debate 2021 · 1 · 2021-04-09
This Parliament believes that historical figures (such as the Genghis Khan Ottoman emperors) should not be held responsible for any action in their society which is considered immoral at the present time.
EBDP Club Nationals · Open Final · 2021-04-07
That we regret the existence of war memorial days (e.g. ANZAC Day, Remembrance Day, Vietnam Veterans Day)
Online Easters · Open Final · 2021-04-02
This house believes that scholars from colonially-oppressed states (like India, Congo, Algeria etc) should design the school history curriculum of their oppressors (like Britain, Belgium, France)
Premchand Debates · 2 · 2021-04-02
This house believes that states formerly under the rule of the Soviet Union should not emphasize their history of struggle against Russian imperialism in constructing their national identity
NA Spar Open · 4 · 2021-03-27
This house believes that communities that have been victims of atrocities should emphasize the narrative of the “banality of evil” when interpreting those atrocities
30th ICU Tournament 2021 · 3 · 2021-03-26